I was impressed by the braking power an F1 car has.
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It’s their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn’t in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It’s a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.
If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person’s good qualities, I gather in that force.
Money: power at its most liquid.
I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I’m seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
There’s a power in empathy.
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.
If you’re an artist, create music and put it out on the Internet. If you do this consistently, your fan base will continue growing, and that will power your entire career.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Faith Words aren’t just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God.
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn’t have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.
The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one’s power to either hasten or slow it down.
Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.
What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.
With growing economic prowess comes, of course, military power.
